Help Me Out!

🤝 Help Me Out! A Fun ESL Game for Making Requests & Asking Favours. Download this free printable worksheet to teach your students how to ask for help politely and confidently using real-life English expressions.

🤝 Help Me Out! A Fun ESL Game for Making Requests & Asking Favours

🤝 Help Me Out! A Fun ESL Game for Making Requests & Asking Favours

Need a fun, interactive activity to teach your ESL students how to ask for help and make polite requests? Our “Help Me Out” free downloadable worksheet is just what your classroom needs!

This printable game is perfect for practicing functional English, encouraging movement and conversation, and building student confidence in a lighthearted, real-world way.

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📝 What’s in the PDF?

This free ESL worksheet includes:

• A student-friendly activity board for personalized scheduling
• A list of useful expressions for making polite requests and asking for favours
• Instructions for a lively classroom mingling activity

Perfect for levels A2 to B2, this worksheet combines speaking practice, listening, and social interaction.

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🔄 How to Use This in Class

1. Plan Personal Requests
   Students fill in five squares with tasks they need help with (e.g., “wash my car,” “cook dinner,” “move house”).
2. Learn the Language
   Review key expressions from the worksheet, like:
   • Could you help me…?
   • Would you mind…?
   • I was wondering if you could…
3. Walk, Talk, and Help!
   Students walk around asking classmates if they’re free to help. If someone agrees, they sign their name under the task. Students must use a different person for each square!
4. Switch Roles
   As they give help, students also record the tasks they’ve agreed to help with—creating a complete schedule.
5. Declare a Winner
   • In small classes: the winner is the student with the most activities scheduled.
   • In large classes: the first student to complete their schedule wins!

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💡 Why It Works

This free ESL speaking activity helps students:

• Practice asking for favours and offering help
• Use polite request language in a natural, communicative way
• Boost fluency, listening, and interaction skills
• Build confidence with real-life English

And best of all? It’s fun, fast-paced, and requires zero prep (just print and go!).

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👩‍🏫 Teaching Tip

Turn it into a two-round game! In the second round, have students swap their schedules and role-play mini dialogues based on the tasks they agreed to do. This encourages them to recycle the language and build even more speaking confidence.

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Get your students moving, talking, and helping each other—all while learning practical English!

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More ESL Classroom Games & Activities

Looking for more fun grammar activities for your English class? Check out these ideas:
✅ ESL Speaking Games to improve fluency
✅ Grammar Board Games for practicing sentence structures
✅ Interactive Writing Activities for ESL learners